“…the optimal internal state for learning is one of relaxed alertness (Caine & Caine 1991), while the optimal external, environmental conditions for learning are characterized by ‘high challenge and low threat’ (OECD 2002). …The integration of the arts into the daily lives of students’ school experience is perhaps the most promising way to provide students, simultaneously, with learning experiences that cultivate a state of relaxed alertness, provide orchestrated immersion in complex experience, and allow for active processing experiences – experiences that are vital to student success in school and in life” (Lewis 81-82)